Jan 29, 2009 – PSE&G [NYSE: PEG] announced that in line with President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill it will spend $888 million to improve its energy infrastructure and advance energy conservation. It stated that its customers are switching to compact fluorescent light [CFL] bulbs and using its solar loan program. It said its program will [...]
In addition to the basic recycling, the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida will include a green energy purchase and tree planting. The NFL is purchasing renewable energy from TECO (NYSE: TE), which gets its power from solar panels and from a biomass facility.
In 2008, The Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona was the first one powered completely with [...]
General Electric [NYSE: GE] will air a 30-second commercial called “Scarecrow” for $3,000,000 to publicize their Smart Grid energy technology project. The Super Bowl ad will focus on the challenge of transforming the aging electrical grid to meet the increasing power demands.
The company says that Smart Grid is a vision for a smarter, more efficient, [...]
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Jan 27, 2009 – It is a busy day in The New York Times today for energy news. John M. Broder has an article titled, “Geography Is Dividing Democrats Over Energy.” Oops. Isn’t it the Republicans that are going to oppose new initiatives on the energy front? It seems sparks are flying amongst the Democrats [...]
The United Arab Emirates hosts an energy summit, as it tries to cope with falling demand for oil. CNN’s Stan Grant reports.
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Jan 26, 2009 – First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:FSLR) applauds the creation of the new International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) as an important step in promoting investments in renewable energies worldwide. IRENA is an international organization created to promote renewable energy options on a global scale. This initiative will offer both industrialized and developing [...]
Jan 26, 2009 – BioSolar, Inc. (OTC BB: BSRC), developer of a technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic [PV] solar modules, continues to sustain media attention for its cost-saving and environmentally-friendly BioBacksheetTM solar module component.
“With the new administration ready to push for legislation requiring the use [...]
Jan 23, 2009 – J. Wayne Leonard, the CEO of the electric company Entergy, discusses renewable energy and carbon emissions in an op-ed piece in The New York Times. He explains how a national “renewable portfolio standard” using solar and wind power may be at cross purposes with attempting to reduce carbon emissions quickly because [...]
TIPS FOR MAKING YOUR OFFICE ECO-RESPONSIBLE”. They list “TEN TIPS FOR A GREEN OFFICE”. Here is the energy saving ones: 3. Join a carpool with coworkers who live near you. 4. Turn off the AC and wear lighter-weight fabrics. [I guess that is for the summer.] 5. Bring your lunch instead of driving to a [...]
Jan 21, 2009 – Try to keep track of which companies are in the green energy business and who is in the traditional energy business. It’s not easy if you are only following the print ads placed by the companies with the most advertising dollars. ExxonMobil is continuing touting themselves. The ad [...]
Jan 21, 2009 – Recently, companies have been placing ads touting their activities with green energy even when their activities are minor or a small percentage of their total activities. Vestas of Denmark has an ad running now that starts, “Think just anyone can harness the power of the wind? Think again.” [...]
ThinkSolar, in cooperation with solar contractor Pacific Solar Energy, has completed one of California’s largest commercial roof-mounted photovoltaic (PV) systems. The 650kW solar array for Lithographix is the first commercial array in the City of Hawthorne.
The rooftop installation at Lithographix’s 250,000 square foot facility near Los Angeles International Airport, features Schott ASE300 solar panels, [...]
Jan 21, 2009 – NACEL Energy Corporation (OTC BB: NCEN.OB), a wind power company has entered into 2 long term wind development rights agreements covering an aggregate of 1,573 acres of farm land located in Swisher County, Texas. Swisher is the Company’s third Texas wind energy project located in the Panhandle. At project [...]
Jan 21, 2009 – Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced that it has signed a contract with Banco Centroamericano de Integracion Economica (BCIE) for the supply, supervision of installation, start-up and testing of Las Pailas Geothermal Plant, a new geothermal power plant that is to be constructed in Las Pailas Field, Costa Rica.
The plant will [...]
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